Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.
How does that compare to the normal flu? And did flu related deaths go down?
COVID 19 was a scam.
Viral diseases have always caused many deaths per year, especially in susceptible and vulnerable populations.
COVID was the only one to receive abnormal media coverage.
This has real “alpha males don’t wipe” energy.
Fuck off
Hospital beds in my town were full for first time ever. Not enough ventilators as well.
I watched my great-aunt’s funeral on Zoom. She died after thousands of elderly COVID patients were shunted from overcrowded UK hospitals into care homes, passing on their COVID to all the other elderly residents. Our government at the time said to let the “bodies pile high”
So you can take that opinion and stuff it, frankly.
Everyone. I want to point out that anyone who says shit like this gets an instant permaban from me. Please report any and all comments like this.
Over 7 million reported deaths is not a goddamn scam. COVID 19 is an order of magnitude more dangerous than your average seasonal flu, and often causes severe long-term harm to survivors.
Most of all, we had a chance to get rid of it. Even if it were just another flu, that would be incredibly significant. Now it’s endemic, the world is permanently a worse place for it, and idiots like you are a contributing reason why
COVID broke public health. You can’t even get tested where I live. Nobody has any idea of the prevelance.
I’ve been saying it’s endemic for the whole earth for years. Now it’s just another thing to test for (in my area) when people come in for upper respiratory issues along like flu and strep.
its only gets reported in the news, if the new variant is particular severe, like last year, otherwise you never hear about covid. also people around me, dont think it exists anymore, even in a covid-conscisous city.
That’s called pandemic
In this case, I’m referring to the baseline or prevalence throughout all of Earth’s population. Whereas pandemic is more like an epidemic that has spread to other contries.
Covid is common now like the common cold, flu, strep. It’s always gonna be with us I’m afraid. I would also believe that most every human has been exposed to the virus at this point.
https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/featured-topic/endemic-epidemic-pandemic
Tests are in every pharmacy and relatively cheap.
Lucky you
20 to 30 dollars is absolutely not relatively cheap. If it was 5 bucks sure I’d agree with you.
they are expensive, online t hey are super cheap when ordered in bulk. i ordered some last year.
That’s not a public health test as it’s not reportable. Just lime I can take my own temperature but public health doesn’t care. Compare the treatment of COVID to sexually transmitted infections that are reported and contact traced.
You can’t simply buy self tests in Canada?
Yes. But compare it to getting the clap. With a sexually transmitted disease they will report it for statistical purposes then contact trace etc. With COVID it’s only reportable with a fatality. If you test positive there is no way to get it counted. You just don’t know how much is out there.
When I say you can’t get tested it’s not like there are clinics where you can go in and et tested like you used to. Still can for STBBDs though.
You just don’t know how much is out there.
Yeah, I don’t. Doesn’t mean though that public health officials and researchers simply stopped monitoring the situation. Just like the Flu COVID isn’t going to vanish. So what’s the point of continuing regular public status updates unless there is another critical situation brewing?
As I’ve posted in another reply Influenza kills roughly 24,000 people per month directly or indirectly worldwide. That is in a good year. In bad years casualties can rise to as much as 54,000 per month. PER MONTH. Diseases such as Influenza and COVID simply can’t be eradicated because they are so easily transmitted and in the majority of cases only cause temporary discomfort.
See why this is a ridiculous post?
Your downvotes are wild and really indicative on the type of people here. Jesus Christ lemmy likes to exist in a bubble and as soon as you provide critical thought or say something someone doesn’t want here (and yet is still on topic)? Downvoted.
Anyways, you’re right. It sucks but you’re right.
Case in point couple of years ago we had a trifreca of influenza, COVID and RSV. Health Canada was reporting on all 3. To your point the people who die to this day of influenza and RSV is insanely high. We don’t hear about them constantly. COVID is now part of that crew. Will never go away. Too transmissible and it adapts too fast.
If you are older get the RSV shot yearly. Everyone else, get your flu and COVID shot yearly.
Wait a minute, you say that covid will be with us for ever but didnt a number of covid AND influenza species actually go completely extinct back in the end of 2020 or 2021 because of how well the lockdowns were implemented snd adhered to?
WHo is to say that such a lockdown cant be reimplemented and surprisingly extincts certain species of respiratory transmissible illnesses …like ALL covid species?
Lockdowns didn’t work even when there was global news coverage of a pandemic happenening. What makes you think they would work now?
Our flu shots are still quadrivalent, but two of the strains they protect against haven’t been detected since 2019, since so many people were masking in 2020. The lockdowns worked reasonably well IMO, you can’t expect perfection.
I’ve been coughing for 2 weeks now. Nothing serious, but I took a covid test today, out of curiousity. Test was expired. Inconclusive
did you have any other symptoms. usually coughs dont last that long. could be bronchitis from cold, flu. i had covid last year and it cause really nasty symptoms. funny thing is the covid dint really cause alot of coughing per se, as it resulted in so much sputum from the lungs it irrittated me to cough instead.
I’m in the same situation. But my test was negative. Is there any way you can get another self-test?
amazon has pretty cheap tests, grocery store sell its, but they are quite expensive.
I’d rather not order from amazon. I had to order from aliexpress once, because there was literallly no other place to order a three-way cord switch. Got bombarded with spam for weeks. Amazon is equally vile as aliexpress imo. I’ll check my local drug stores first.
Order them from amazon? I see prices like 9 euros for 10.
Lol @ all those conspiracy guys in here. At least wait till you hear about Influenza.
How many more people need to die before it moves from “conspiracy” to “real” in your mind?
I guess you are misunderstanding my intention here.
COVID is very much real. But people in this thread seem to believe there is some form of deliberate undercount of cases going on because our public health systems can’t deal with the number of infected.
Just because news outlets don’t report hourly updates on case numbers, infection rates and whatnot doesn’t mean that there is an international effort going on to conceal the true extend of the situation. It means that COVID cases have reached a level that is no longer relevant for everyday life.
As an airborne easily transmittable respiratory disease COVID isn’t going away. Just like Influenza. But 200 deaths linked to COVID per month worldwide? That’s a resounding success for our public health efforts!
Compare that to the number of people Influenza kills directly or indirectly and tell me with a straight face that COVID is some form of superdisease that governments are hiding the true extend of.
Not getting added to a registry for catching COVID anymore doesn’t mean there is no one monitoring the situation. It means that the overall spread is negligible enough that it doesn’t warrant tight controls.
Are these the people that don’t get vaccinated yearly?
Not always. Sometimes people who choose not to get vaccinated infect people who can’t get vaccinated, so innocent people die for the selfish choices of others.
You should ideally be getting vaccinated twice a year.
Doesn’t that depend if you are severally immunocompromised?
Or to help the immunodeficient, as well as yourself, I guess.
YMMV but in Canada recommendation is once a year. Flu & COVID shot. I do it because I’m a good citizen and I care about those around me including and not limited to my son with diabetes and my aunt’s recovering from cancer and my elderly parents.
Well, fuck it. Let them.
There’s a really bad surge in Texas right now that hit me like a truck. I’d had it a few times before, but this was by far the worst and the shortness of breath and brain fog aren’t going away this time.
Lucky you. I got that the first time I had Covid during the pandemic. I was one of the “lucky” 35% or of people that ended up with those long term effects. I still lose words in mid sentence and can’t remember what I was going to say next. The word is there in my head, and then instantly gone. It’s the worst thing in the world…
I had that. I used nicotine to recover from it. Sounds strange but it worked. Low dose nic patch, worn 24/7, for about 3 weeks.
The downside is I started vaping again (very low dose nic) but I got my brain back.
I got the covid brain-fog back in 2023, it took me almost 18 months to recover. It almost felt like I was getting Alzheimers, forgetting names of everyday things.
And for some of us, it will never go away.
Meanwhile RFK Jr, the anti-vaxx nut job that is in charge of the HHS, is doing his damnedest to prevent the most recent version of the covid vaccine from making it to market.
I heard that nicotine might be beneficial. try a nicotine patch.
I heard ivermectin works. Go buy a bunch. /s
I’ve heard meth helps. But you have to get it from this one guy I know. You can trust him. He’s a Republican.
You guys aren’t injecting bleach? Libtards /s
A few times before ? Wtf
It’s been 6 years. It’s not that weird. I got it in July of 2022, sometime in 2024, and at the very end of August this year.
Hasn’t everyone had it at least once by now?
Still haven’t
The chosen one
Still haven’t had one with symptoms. Ftfy.
I had it only once, when I didn’t wear a mask to a work function. In like 22. My wife uses meds that makes her immunocompromised so she’s still masking. I’m not but probably should be. I do wear masks on planes and stuff
Never tested positive for Covid over here. One cold one time in 2025, other than that I just haven’t been sick since 2019. I also had a stockpile of N95 masks before the pandemic because I was worried about a pandemic. I figured it would last about 5-10 years, and so far I have sadly been basically correct.
My husband and I still have not had it. At first we thought maybe we were just asymptomatic. Nope, I got sick and hospitalized from the vaccine with myocarditis and the doctor said if I got actual Covid I’d probably die. So my husband has masked up really thoroughly as well.
Well crap. Sorry too hear. I hope it does go away in time. Long COVID is no joke.
I know some folks who think the vaccines are the cause of covid. They have other weird beliefs based on gossip and stories.
My mom, unfortunately, falls in that category. She won’t get the vaccine but she still wears a mask everyday.
My parents are intelligent, relatively informed and not really the kneejerk type, and they believe every health complication anyone has had in the past half decade was entirely amplified by the vaccine. Fucking hell. The pandemic really broke people’s brains
I’m afraid that statement precludes your parents from being described as intelligent. Intelligence is the ability to extrapolate meaning and truth from information, which they evidently cannot do.
Huh I hadn’t heard of that combo before
Yeah, she’s been into alternative medicine my entire life. Thankfully, she not completely against science and does go to a primary doctor for check ups.
At least it’s logically consistent. If you don’t want to get the vaccine for whatever reason, masking is what you should do.
It’s rare but not impossible. A Case Report: Long Post-COVID Vaccination Syndrome During the Eleven Months After the Third Moderna Dose - PMC
I met an anti-vax nurse …
I wouldnt be surprised if there were anti-vax vaccinologists!
Sorry, this is wrong. Right now it’s about 200 people per day
And that’s not worldwide. That’s just in the US.
doesn’t that say 5.4 daily?
Can you point me to where it mentions that 5.4 stat? I’m probably misreading a chart… I found this section which I think moldy_rice was reverencing:
you’re probably right
Y’all are so cordial, wtf
What the internet could be. Makes me smile.
Jesus have you read any Instagram comments sections? On anything almost, people are absolutely vile to each other. I didn’t get it the hostility and name calling is just astounding.
Instagram culture is awful. I’m sure Meta actively boosts the worst comments, basically forcing rage bait engagement
Can’t have excess death if we just stop counting ‘taps temple’
Don’t forget, they stopped reporting a lot of COVID related deaths as COVID a while back. Lots of sweeping things under the rug.
they stop mid 2022. people were still get nasty covid infections, one of parents had covid that caused very painful sore throat a year later, gave us a minor infection. then last year when the razor blade variant was running around, i had in sept. i believed it was partially responsible for triggering atopic dermatitis.
They stopped monitoring the waste water for signs of Covid illness in my area years ago. Not because the numbers had gone down.
This whole epidemic was sweeping under rugs from start to probably forever. Insane malpractice on so many levels and right wing nut jobs cry about governments asking them to wear masks or getting a shot as if that was a problem.
I find some irony in the fact that a lot of those that refused to wear masks during Covid are now wearing masks as ICE.
they also arnt reporting all the raping resulting in pregnancies thats been happening too.
where can I read about that cause wtf?!
(also those poor victims)
Well, yeah… As ICE, the masks protect THEM, not other people. That’s all they care about.
My partner has long COVID; from that we see a community of those getting diagnosed is increasing as well.
I always found it interesting how most people seemed to only focus on survivability. Like, COVID was almost always spoken about as if there were only two outcomes: die or not die. Conversations about the disease, virus, or vaccines often completely ignored the lasting damage that the disease can leave survivors with.
The mental and physical degradation is just brushed aside.
Its like those people who focus only on GDP per capita …
But then never focus on Reported Quality Of Life.
Who cares if the GDP Per Capita is like 1 million per a person if over half of the peoppe occupying a region are billionaires?
That’s surprising, considering we have dedicated antivirals for it now. 😲
Those don’t work very well compared to the vaccines and the people who would most benefit from them refuse to take them anyway.
i know people that are more resistant to taking the vaccine then when it was first introduced. what a surprise a bunch of them got the variant last year, and spread it to my family.
well yeah you can’t just get a vaccine here you have to explain a comorbidity.
No you don’t.
I bet the avg age is 97
